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Last week the U.N.'s World Food Program announced that it would halt shipments until the present stockpile is cleared. Bloomfield calls the situation "unbelievably tragic." Says he: "If there's no improvement in the next month, we'll be reaching a crisis point...
...Juilliard Quartet with John Graham, second viola, Columbia; 3 LPs). The best complete set of these masterpieces since the recording by the Budapest Quartet with Walter Trampler. The playing is supple and urgent, fully equal to the symphonic sweep of the great C major quintet as well as the tragic stoicism of the G minor. What it sometimes misses is the mystery of Mozart's luminous, godlike simplicity. But then that is the quality in Mozart that Artur Schnabel described as "too easy for children and too difficult for artists...
...album ends, however, the name on Young's lips is not Johnny Rotton, but Bruce Berry, a man whose only claim to fame was picking up after Crazy Horse on the road and overdosing on smack. Young brings the audience full circle by ending with Berry's tragic story, "Tonight's the Night...
...stir. By telling the story of three elderly men who rob a bank, Director-Writer Brest (Hot Tomorrows) apparently meant to make a poignant statement about the loneliness and financial indignities that can grip old people. The subject is worthwhile, but Brest never comes close to giving it either tragic or comic life. Except for the funny holdup and a brief subsequent Vegas gambling spree, Going in Style has only dull, homely sequences that alternately patronize and sentimentalize the aged. The mordant humor of Carl Reiner's Where's Poppa? and the fiery compassion of Paul Mazursky...
Only an injury to the team's best player could have made the team's tragic roadtrip any worse. Enter Caryn Curry's severely sprained ankle three minutes into the Manhattanville contest. Without their slick captain, the hoopsters will have to struggle mightily to improve their overall record...